TWO PROFESORS OF AFRO-PUERTO RICO BOMBA MUSIC IN NEW ENGLAND


 Master Lydia Perez from Warwick, Rhode Island, Sings different "seises de Bomba" from Puerto Rico accompanied by Master Carlos Cruz Cruz, from Connecticut, Massachusetts.

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